Merge releases/v3 into releases/v2

[github-actions[bot]]

Merging 9fdb3e497 into releases/v2.

Conductor for this PR is @dbartol.

Contains the following pull requests:

• 2281 (@NlightNFotis)

• 2284 (@NlightNFotis)

• 2286 (@koesie10)

• 2288 (@henrymercer)

• 2292 (@koesie10)

• 2293 (@henrymercer)

• 2294 (@henrymercer)

• 2295 (@dbartol)

• 2300 (@dbartol)

Please do the following:

• [x] Ensure the CHANGELOG displays the correct version and date.
• [x] Ensure the CHANGELOG includes all relevant, user-facing changes since the last release.
• [x] Check that there are not any unexpected commits being merged into the releases/v2 branch.
• [x] Ensure the docs team is aware of any documentation changes that need to be released.
• [x] Remove and re-add the "Update dependencies" label to the PR to trigger just this workflow.
• [x] Wait for the "Update dependencies" workflow to push a commit updating the dependencies.
• [x] Mark the PR as ready for review to trigger the full set of PR checks.
• [ ] Approve and merge this PR. Make sure Create a merge commit is selected rather than Squash and merge or Rebase and merge.

[github-actions[bot]]

Pushed a commit to update the checked-in dependencies. Please mark the PR as ready for review to trigger PR checks.

[dbartol]

Force merging to work around GLIBC removal from recent ubuntu-latest images. Full fix will be propagated as part of the next release cycle.